CVE-2006-2531

Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006 - Authentication Bypass

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Ipswitch WhatsUp Professional 2006 only verifies the user's identity via HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to spoof being a trusted console and bypass authentication by setting HTTP User-Agent header to "Ipswitch/1.0" and the User-Application header to "NmConsole".

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 7.5

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-05-17 First Exploit
2006-05-22 CVE Reserved
2006-05-22 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-09-10 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.ftusecurity.com/pub/whatsup.public.pdf	X_refsource_misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434247/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434447/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18019	Vdb Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1849	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26529	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27891	2006-05-17

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ipswitch Search vendor "Ipswitch"		Whatsup Search vendor "Ipswitch" for product "Whatsup"				professional_2006 Search vendor "Ipswitch" for product "Whatsup" and version "professional_2006"		-		Affected